Enchanted New York av Kevin Dann

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<p><b>A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York''s magical past</b><br/>Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour¿a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. <i>Enchanted New York </i>chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. <br/>Progressing up New York¿s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won¿t find in your <i>Lonely Planet</i> or<i> Fodor¿s</i> guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies¿from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project¿to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder¿working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice B